Word: dogma
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...with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply a part of that general contempt of the New America for an ancient--and eternal--ideal that stubbornly refuses to die in spite of the threats of democratic dogma...
...dogma would summon to journalism those who follow the brooding stars of art. He calls for language of downright statement from those whose writings aspire to suggest. He would indenture to erudition or popular data those who are apprenticed to imagination...
That in the settlement of the labor problems lies the duty and opportunity of the University, "as a radiating center of protest against dogma and as an inspiration to the scientific investigation of the problems of the day," was the thought expressed by Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, of the Law School, speaking at the University Forum held in the Parish House of the First Unitarian Church last evening...
...that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above character. It was held that all learning was of equal educational value, provided only that it was scientifically pursued. History became a searching of documents; literature became philology. Shakespeare and Chaucer...
...general participation of students in various games is a difficult thing to bring about. A Le Gore, a Mahan, a Howard Miller, a Hobey Baker, does more to stimulate the average student to emulate the example of these stars in ways however humble than any amount of theoretical dogma designed to show that athletic exercise in the open air is good for mind and body. --LAWRENCE PERRY, IN THE NEW YORK EVENING POST...